“Nobody wants to talk about it. It seems like I’m sort of a whipping post, because I bring it up,” the real estate tycoon told Fox News.
“The crime is raging, it’s raging and it’s violent. And people don’t even want to talk about it. And if you talk about it, you’re a racist. I don’t understand it.”
Co-host Tucker Carlson observed that NBC, Univision and even NASCAR were dropping Trump, and that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is reviewing the city’s contracts with him.
Trump said while he was expecting the reaction to be bad, he didn’t think it would be this bad. No word on if Hillary Clinton will denounce his comments or return his donations, but that would require her talking to the press.